[CentOS-devel] Interest in a 32bit tree of the upcoming CentOS7?

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Hi Andreas,

I personally interested in this effort.

My customer is mostly running their system on quite old system, but it does
the job.

And I'm always provide my customer with CentOS, in anticipation if they
want to move to a supported OS later, they can just install Red Hat, and
very high probability that their application will just work.

But, if Red Hat, thus CentOS stops i686 release, I have no other option
than moving my customer to other distribution that support x86 machine.

I also believe a lot of 3rd world country still running a lot of x86
machine, and this is actually a big market that Red Hat is abandoning.

Maybe Karanbir can point that out to Red Hat when you have a meeting with
them.

Thanks.







On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Andreas Thienemann <andreas at bawue.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of building myself a 32bit tree of the RHEL7 beta as
> I do have a few x86 machines I am not ready to retire yet.
>
> Now that CentOS is all open and community etc. I was wondering if
> there'd be some interest for me to rebuild the results within the CentOS
> project and turn it into an official release long term.
> My unfinished work so far is based on an older RHEL5 buildsystem I still
> had lying around but I am happy to switch this to the CentOS toolstack
> if there's interest.
> This would mean filing off the serials, removing trademarks and all
> these things which I hadn't planned on doing initially but on the other
> hand, it should be very easy doing that benefitting from the regular
> CentOS work on these topics.
>
> Is anyone else interested in a i[36]86 build of CentOS7 and would be
> willing and able to contribute to it?
> Or is x86_64 the only release really needed?
>
> If there's some interest, I am sure this could be turned into a nice
> project.
>
> cheers,
>   Andreas
>
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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
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